it complains mount: you must specify the filesystem type but anyways, i wonder i should upgrade some driver that takes care of detecting the card insertion? i mean to avoid this alternative system? thanks
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Rob Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > potax flan wrote: > >> hi rob >> i email you off the p:d list cos this is really off-topic. >> you said you installed p:d on your eeepc as well. i am slowly making >> things work there, but there is something i really dont know how to solve. >> in the original xandros distro, when you insert a flash drive on one of the >> usb ports it mounts and displays the contents really easily. same with the >> sc card port. my plan is to rely a lot on the sd card for file storage, so i >> need to sort that out, and right now i am lost about it. any hints will be >> really welcome >> best >> p >> >> > on my eeepc automount works fine when i pop in my SD card or a usb stick > someone else may be able to shed some light on why it doesn't auto mount > for you. > > you can see if the SD card is recognised by typing > > sudo dmesg > > in a terminal soon after you insert the card > > you should see something referring to a device such as sdc1 > > you can mount it manually until you sort out why its not auto mounting. > > to do this you need to make a mountpoint directory like this > > sudo mkdir /media/SDcard > > > then mount the device using the name you got from the dmesg command > > for example > > sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/SDcard > > hope this helps > > rob > > > > >
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